Amec Foster Wheeler (London, U.K.; www.amecfw.com) has been awarded two contracts by Freeport-McMoRan Inc. for the design and supply of a new wet-fluegas-desulfurization system at their existing copper smelter facility in Miami, Arizona.
The value of the contracts has not been announced.
Under the contracts, Amec Foster Wheeler will provide a new scrubber vessel equipped with a dual flow tray to optimize sulfur dioxide reduction, spray nozzles, recycle pumps, and mist eliminators, as well as engineering and site supervision services. Commercial operation of the unit is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2017.